An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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SHIMOMURA, Osamu

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Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea.

J. Cell. & Comp. Physiol., 59, 223-239, 1962.

Shimomura (Nobel Prize 2008) reported the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in a single footnote in this paper that was otherwise devoted to an entirely different bioluminescent protein: photoprotein aequorin. This may be the only time that the Nobel Prize was awarded for a discovery reported in a single footnote.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Shimomura, Johnson, Saiga.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY › Bioluminescence, BIOLOGY › Marine Biology